by Marilyn | Jun 3, 2015 | Metaphor of Experience, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir
Don’t expect to know your metaphors before you begin to write. This is what you’ll discover as you write. Sue William Silverman Writing memoir is an act of self-discovery. And the discovery that happens during the writing often reveals the deeper story of the...
by Marilyn | May 27, 2015 | Memoir, Memoir Writing, Self Discovery, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir, writing process
One of the hallmarks of writing memoir is making sense of your life experiences. The very act of looking back and seeing how seemingly disparate events are connected by deeper themes leads not only to insight and wisdom but also to self-compassion. Writing...
by Marilyn | Apr 22, 2015 | craft, Voice, Women's Memoir, Writing Exercise
The voice is the creature of the body that produces it. Nancy Mairs In order to recover your voice, you have to return to your body. Indeed, writing is an embodied activity. After all, our voices are housed in our bodies. As Nancy Mairs puts it, “No body, no...
by Marilyn | Apr 1, 2015 | craft, Memoir Writing, Transformational Arc, Women's Memoir
One of the questions I get asked often by women writers, whether they’re writing short memoir stories or a book-length memoir, is How do I know where my story begins, and how do I know where it ends? It’s an excellent question because when we write...
by Marilyn | Mar 25, 2015 | Memoir, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir
Nothing says visibility like video. Which is why I’ve been making a video a day for the last week. You see, after two years of wanting to make video and not doing it, I finally had to admit that my inaction had less to do with the excuse I was telling...
by Marilyn | Mar 18, 2015 | craft, Memoir, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir, Writing Exercise
“The urgency of having to fit the content into an abbreviated frame is what makes it powerful.” Dinty Moore Last week’s article defined flash memoir, and pointed you in the direction of the online magazine Brevity: A Journal of Concise Nonfiction so that you...
